Wh-exclamatives, Imperatives and Wh-questions : : Issues on Brazilian Portuguese / / ed. by Simone Guesser, Ani Marchesan, Paulo Medeiros Junior.

• HerausgeberIn: Guesser, Simone,; Marchesan, Ani,; Medeiros Junior, Paulo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: LINGUISTICA LATINOAMERICANA , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 463 p.)

Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system. Throughout these years, important contributions have been made on Brazilian Portuguese, especially on wh-interrogative sentences, focalization, topicalization and relative clauses. As for exclamative and imperative sentences, however, there is a considerable research gap in all grammatical levels. Regarding interrogatives, semantic and prosodic studies are still lacking (as well as research on the acquisition and processing of these constructions). This collected volume fills some of those gaps, gathering studies on wh-exclamatives, imperatives and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese which approach syntactical, semantical and prosodic aspects of these constructions through a rich and unregistered set of data. They also deliver novel acquisition and diachronic data that will further both the comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese grammar and the ongoing discussions on left periphery phenomena.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Wh-Exclamatives -- Exclamatives: An overview -- On the role of IP-related functional categories in the derivation of wh-exclamatives -- "What a great paper!": A semantic analysis of wh-exclamatives with predicates of personal taste -- Copular exclamatives and gender agreement -- The perception of wh-exclamatives, free small clauses, and wh-questions in Brazilian Portuguese -- Part II: Imperatives -- Imperative clauses -- The verbal imperative in Brazilian capitals: An analysis of data from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project -- Past imperatives -- Imperative sentences and their subjects -- Part III: Wh-questions -- A framework for the study of Romance wh-questions, with special reference to Italo-Romance -- Using semantic inferences to distinguish between free relative and embedded questions: An analysis of ambiguous embedded clauses -- The left-peripheral syntax of Brazilian Portuguese cadê -- Aspects of the development of wh-questions in child Brazilian Portuguese -- Wh-questions, intervention effects and beyond: An assessment of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking schoolchildren's linguistic abilities -- Subject index